- GMK K12 uses Oculink and USB4 to make EGPU support completely Plug-And-Play
- Ryzen 7 h 255 pushes 70W under the load, rare in mini-PCs in budget the size of a palm
- The triple SSD locations M.2 make K12 unusually capable of managing massive storage networks
GMK launched the K12, a mini PC at a price of 2,099 yuan (around $ 292), designed for users looking for a compact but extensible system.
Unlike typical budget systems, K12 supports Oculink and USB4, making external GPU connectivity a practical reality without modifying internal components.
Propelled by Ryzen 7 h 255 of AMD, the GMK K12 has a Zen 4 to 8 core processor and 16-thread with clock speeds ranging from 3.8 GHz to 4.9 GHz.
A small factor in shape with a surprising thermal margin
GMK (originally in Chinese) claims that the chip can maintain a power envelope of 70 W under a sustained load, which places it well above what is generally expected from factor devices of small shape.
The integrated GPU Radeon 780m manages lighter games and creative workloads, although its real strength lies in the support of external GPU quays on Oculink or USB4.
One of the main sales arguments of this device is its unusually wide storage and memory capacity, because it has three PCIe 4.0 m.2 locations, each supported up to 8 TB SSD, which brings total storage to 24 to theoretical, and is also delivered with two DDR5 locations, which support up to 128 GB of RAM at 5600 MHz.
Although these specifications are far beyond what most mini-PCs need, they offer K12 flexibility to operate as a light workstation or an experimental professional PC for heavy data tasks.
With so much power, heating problems are heating problems, and the K12 manages this with a two fans system supported by a steam chamber heat spreader.
The GMK chassis includes double -air intake and selectable cooling profiles by the user: silent (45W), balanced (54W) and performance (65W).
This approach may not correspond to the traditional cooling of workstations, but it provides more control than most of its size class systems.
On the connectivity side, the K12 supports up to four 4K displays via HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4 and USB4, with a data transfer managed via 2.5 g Ethernet ports and 6th Wi-Fi.
In particular, the OCULINK port on the front panel allows an EGPU support without loss, and the USB4 port supports the data flow rates of 40 GbitPS and the power delivery of 120 W.
That said, GMK K12 is not intended to replace office computers or high -end playing towers; It introduces a mixture of affordability, extension and performance control which is not often observed at this price.
